Liftoff

Wow.

48 hours ago I returned to my room to grab my computer, and found that the shelf it was sitting on was retaining a large amount of water, because I had placed it under a plastic kettle, which I had believed to be empty, but which was not. I then proceeded to grab my computer and a towel, and I wiped the bottom and top, and then I opened it. I was dismayed to find that the entire screen was covered in condensation and that ever key was wet. I concluded however, that it would probably be alright, and that the water had only run off the lid and inside of it on it's way to the shelf it sat on. I then dabbed out all the water from the various plugs, then attempted to shake any water out of the computer fan, and then put it down open and on it's side to try to dry it out over night.

In the morning, it seemed dry, so I decided to open up the cd drive, but I realized that I would have to turn it on first. I turned on my compter as usual, and quickly popped out the cd drive. The cd in the cd drive was covered in little water droplets, and every surface of the disc tray was wet. I dryed it with a towel and pushed it in, as my computer continued to boot. everything seemed to be working fine, and I got to the point of reading a facebook message when suddenly my computer's power went out completely. Thinking that maybe it had just been low on batteries, I plugged in the power cord and turned it on again. It made it to the login screen but then powered down once again. I thus concluded that it was still wet and left it until that evening.
That evening (yesterday) it powered down three times when I tryed to boot it, and then stopped even turning on. I kept hoping that if I just held it still it would stay on long enough to dry itself because of the air circulation. At this point I also removed my battery and one of the panels on the bottom to see if it was still wet inside. It was. My battery was wet, and so was my hard drive. I went to bed immediately- at 7:00 at night, I just didn't feel like being conscious.

This morning I woke up and prayed for my laptop. I prayed the best prayer I could pray. I itterated my need for my laptop, and explained that, although I new that God was capable of providing for my needs even if my laptop was destroyed, I really and very strongly wanted God to supply my need by healing my laptop.

Then I turned it on. It worked. It stayed booted. I logged in and left it to hopefully continue drying itself during the day. Now I'm using it. Yes, I'm using it. I am using my resurrected laptop.

Today was open house here at Q. Over a thousand people came on this beautiful day. After my sound check (oooh a sound check?) this morning I grabbed some quick lunch at 11:15 and then went up to be in charge of archery for 5 hours. Although it started out slow, people began to gather, and so there were a lot of people for me to show how to shoot a bow. I showed a kid who was almost too short to shoot over the bench. After awhile there was a guy who showed up who enjoyed telling people what to do more than I did, and so I let him do most of the teaching for the last little bit, since I was kindof tired of it. The guy was very nice and very helpful, but he told people things they didn't need to know, which is somewhat less tactful, and made me think he just liked to show off what he knew, but still, he was helpful.

At 5:15 I grabbed a quick dinner by cutting in line, although there was almost no food because there were so many people the kitchen could barely keep up, and then I went to Q-Town (big white tent, it's the chapel) to get ready for the show. I played bass in the band up on stage as we played the camps songs, which are written by the lead singer and dedicated full-time staff member for music at Q.

We played a cover of One Thousand Miles, which is a staple here at Q ever since I went as a camper in 2004. It was however the last time we will play it this summer, as it is being retired.

When I go out, well I know I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the one who's going out with you
When I hang out...
When I pray out...
When I sing out...
Well I would walk 500 hundred miles and I would walk five hundred more just to be the one who walks a thousand miles to fall down at your door DA-DA-DA!!

Anyway, good times, and kindof stressfull. You can't imagine just how good these songs are, and although the audince wasn't as into it as they would be during a camp, and although I barely looked up from my music, I really enjoyed it. You can't imagine the way I feel about these songs that I haven't heard since i was at camp 4 years ago, and how cool it is to be helping the to provide them to a new generation of campers by playing in the band. Also, the whole band vibe is absolutely great, I just dropped right into their mostly seemless collaboration of continuity. We rock.

No more band playing for awhile though, this next week we have to finish off absolutely everything before staff training begins next friday. Staff training is when our band is going to do most of our practicing. By that time, all the staff will be here. There's a bass player coming, so Russ is thinking of getting me to play guitar some of the time, it will be good, I can't wait to play some more songs, since I've only played the 6 that we practiced for tonight. (LIFTOFFF!!!!)


OOOOOhhhhhhh dear. Time to do something normal. I feel like running around and jumping up and down.


Instead, I took pictures:

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Until next time...